Ok, let me make it perfectly clear...Newt will be 3 times better president than 0bama. However Newt will be 6 times worse than Cain/Bachmann/Santorum for the conservative agenda. And Newt will be 3 times worse than Perry & Paul.
And even worse, Newt will be a bigger disaster than Romney.
I suggested that the candidates be judged relatively on three standards: electability, conservative
bona fides, and vision. Clearly, you have made your judgment on conservative
bona fides assuming that the candidate is elected. But as John F. Kennedy said, "first you gotta get elected" so I think we have to think about electability.
I include "vision" because beyond reacting to events as a conservative, we expect our President to be proactive, to take our country in a certain direction. At no time in our history since the descent of the Iron Curtain are we facing such a perfect storm of crises that require a leader with vision.
I am content to await Gingrich's answers to the challenges you raise, judge them on all three standards, and then judge them against the other candidates.
